I have become willing to be poor, and to walk life's ways alone.

The pilot of the Argo never returned from Colchis, but the Argo itself returned with the Golden Fleece.

It may be so with my work; if so, I will be content.

I have selected for our Scripture lesson the 'incorruptible seed.'" He rose and spoke like one before an august assembly; and so it was to him, with his views of the future of the great empire of the Northwest.

A part of the pupils could not comprehend all that he said any more than they had understood the allusion to the pilot of the Argo; but his manner was so gracious, so earnest, so inspired, that they all felt the spirit of it, and some had come to regard themselves as the students of some great destiny.
"Older domes than the pyramids are looking down upon you," he said, "and you are born to a higher destiny than were ever the children of the Pharaohs." "With the exception of Gretchen, not one of the pupils fully understood the picturesque allusion.